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INTRODUCTION TO VEDIC MATHEMATICSIn this chapter we just recall some notions given in the book on Vedic Mathematics written by Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati
Krsna Tirthaji Maharaja (Sankaracharya of Govardhana Matha, Puri, Orissa, India), General Editor, Dr. V.S. Agrawala. Before
we proceed to discuss the Vedic Mathematics that he professed we give a brief sketch of his heritage [51].

He was born in March 1884 to highly learned and pious
parents. His father Sri P Narasimha Shastri was in service as a Tahsildar at Tinnivelly (Madras Presidency)
and later retired as a Deputy Collector. His uncle, Sri Chandrasekhar Shastri was
the principal of the Maharajas College, Vizianagaram and his great grandfather was Justice C. Ranganath Shastri of the
Madras High Court. Born Venkatraman he grew up to be a brilliant student and invariably won the first place in all the
subjects in all classes throughout his educational career. During his school days, he was a student of National College
Trichanapalli; Church Missionary Society College, Tinnivelli and Hindu College Tinnivelly in Tamil Nadu. He passed his
matriculation examination from the Madras University in 1899 topping the list as
usual. His extraordinary proficiency in Sanskrit earned him the title “Saraswati” from the Madras
Sanskrit Association in July 1899. After winning the highest place in the B.A examination Sri Venkataraman appeared for
10 the M.A. examination of the American College of Sciences, Rochester, New York from the Bombay
center in 1903. His subject of examination was Sanskrit, Philosophy, English, Mathematics, History and Science. He had a superb retentive
memory.

In 1911 he could not anymore resist his burning desire for
spiritual knowledge, practice and attainment and therefore, tearing himself off suddenly from the work of
teaching, he went back to Sri Satcidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati Swami at
Sringeri. He spent the next eight years in the profoundest study of the most advanced Vedanta Philosophy and practice of
the Brahmasadhana.